Survey posted 2003-04-17 02:00 by Henrik.

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What do you mean by significant other?

Girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband, ...

What's the "Have no SO" mean?

Have no significant other.

Yeah, well, I think that more thought should be put into these polls!
Quetsion:
What relevance does a Significant Other's use of your TI-Calculator have to do with anything that people come to this site for?
A rhetorical question I know, but here's the answer!
Answer:
NONE!

I appologise for my cinical attitude, but come on....

It's "apologize" and "cynical."
-Sorry for my technical attitude.
d:-)

T H E O P I N I O N

"Starwarsfreak17" posed the rhetorical question regarding the significance of the poll question presented by TI-CALC. The above said person "concluded" (and I do use that term with a broad construction in mind; for in construing the term to mean a logical conclusion, one finds that there is great paradox present) that the said question lacks a "point".

As the appellant, I present my case as such:

*** "TI-CALC" clearly posed the question regarding whether or not one lends his or her graphing calculator to his or her significant other, the person of which shall henceforth be named as "SO", in a manner as to find the answer to the question: a question not quite so obvious, for it is not directly posed, but implied ***

The question is: 'Are you--you, as an entity, as a programmer, as a calculator user--capable of doing more things than simply writing lines of code, incomprehensible to the so-called uninitiated?'

Therefore, the first reponse to the presented poll--"Yes [, I lend my calc]", would correspond to "[yes, there is a meaning to my life]". The second, "No [, I am a jerk]", shall indicate "[no; I deserve to be dumped]". The third, originally: "...No SO" shall be read: "My meaningless life consists of consumming food, cyphering the code of 0's and 1's, and excreting that which shall remain unnamed". The forth: "...no calc". Shall I ask why thou art here, without a friendly TI89 by thy side? For the coldness of VTI, I simply cannot endure.

It seems intellectually obvious that TI-CALC is asking you, as a regular visitor, what sort of person you are. "Are all visitors of TI-CALC reminants of Hollow Men?"

I dissent.

<centauri>

Um... right. You have serious issues. ;-)

One man's issue is another mans treasure.

One man's issue is another man's prime personality trait

LOL!

ROTFLOL!

Haha.. that's great.

HEY! I can't lend my calc to my SO, she lives in New York!

once u get past the high vocab, wordiness, sounding like an end user agreement, and read it, hes right

<RAMBLE> See, what they meant by significant other was really that little voice you hear in your head that tells you to burn things (I know you know what I am talking about, so don't deny it). I almost never let that voice take control, since people always get hurt when I do (namely myself). I wonder if anyone here still knows who I am... Haven't been around for about 3 years :) (collage RULES!!1!!1)</RAMBLE>

Seriously, why the no calc option?? if you have no calc yet you come to this site, i think something is wrong...(w3lc0m3 70 my w0r1d)

I agree with the statement about how the no-calc option should not be there. They should include three more options that say:
"No Significant Other, but would if I had one"
"No Significant Other, but wouldn't if I had one"
"I have a responsible Significant Other who doesn't lose her calc"

Side note: you are in college, and you spell college wrongly. That's just sad.

I suppose they could have also added:

"Yes, except THE calculator"
"Yes, as long as it doesn't leave my sight"
"Yes, but only the virtual one"
"Yes! That's how I lost my first one"
"My SO doesn't even bother asking me"

But then again, deciding among all of these would be harder to do.

Or how about some really stupid options like:

1. I have a domination fetish and I whip my SO if they ask a question other than, "Can I have more?" Or, "Harder, please."

2. My SO IS my calculator

3. My SO hates me because I love my calculator more than they.

4. Cowboy Neal like option, possibly involving the word w00t! or HTML tags.

Grow up... you're a man, be mature!

You are disturbed, so am I.
how bout some more freaky options like

my SO used my calculator as a sex toy

or

My calculator killed my SO out of jealousy

I'm telling you, the link port is TOO SMALL. ;-)

Maybe not for him..

If your questions were on the poll, I would have picked your second one. Not kidding.

But I do agree with him that it's kind of weirdw if you come to this site if you don't have a TI calculator. Maybe those people come just to check out the message boards???
d:-)

I came a little bit before I got my first, I started looking for games before I got mine.

Same here. I ordered my 89 from amazon.com and make the mistake of choosing standard ground shipping, so it took 7 days to get here. By then I had about 30 games downloaded and unzipped, ready to go on the calc. I had even downloaded VTI to try them out :-).

I can here last year when I was borrowing a friend's calc. I was looking for stuff to see if the cables for my digital camera or organizer worked with the calc. Nope. :(

Wow... I came about two years after I got mine. That's when I "discovered" that there was more to the calculator than just the BASIC programs that I wrote :)

What about "who doesn't lose his calc?" Rare as it may seem, girls do come to this site, i.e. my sister (she has a calc to). Due to the 19th Amendment, women are given equal rights. Sexist remarks are not needed in this world (chicks, hotties, babes,...). It is so degrading to our female counterparts and we should feel ashamed for putting them down like that. I believe in equal rights. Pay attention in History class...

He didn't mean for it to be sexist. Why should he be ashamed?
The last time a female posted on here was a while back (yAPPy).

correction:

I have a responsible Significant Other who doesn't lose his/her calc"

Side Note:you should have said:

"You spelled college INCORECCTLY"

(i dont think there is such thing as "wrongly")

*lol* Good move!

I don't know if it was intentional, but you spelled "incorrectly" incorrectly.

Bravo, and thank you for eliminating confusion the world over!

Who is the guy who voted "No Calculator" anyway?

Yes, it is very strange that there were some people that voted 'no calc'. Maybe it was a prank or something.

Wow, you are in a collage?
I didnt think that thats possible.
I mean physical beings cant be in a group of pictures or objects on a surface. It just cant happen.
Unless.....
We could flatten out all of the mispelling losers out there and put them into a collage.

Oh, I get it... "collage", as in pictures and stuff arranged on something... like those posters at school :)

I agree wholeheartedly. What is this legendary significant other? I have not heard of such :)